Cherish These Days | These Days Collection | Melissa Vining

Hello!! It’s Melissa here and I’m super excited to be here with you today sharing my first layout with the beautiful new ‘These Days’ collection.  My assignment was to use the ‘A5 Paper Stack’ and the ‘Pocket Cards’, and of course I just had to use These Days!!  I decided to scrapbook three cute photos of Ava that I took outside the bigger girls school.

I just had to use the gorgeous ‘Daybreak’ patterned paper as my background, and I selected the B side.  This paper is so stunning you’ll want to get serval of it!! I added some light mixed media with gel crayons, but then of course I covered most of it up!! I chose three of the ‘Pocket Cards’, and honestly it was difficult to choose, especially as they are double sided.

I distressed the edges of two of the cards, and popped them up on foam for dimension.  The title card was perfect for my title.  For the third card, I cut it in half and then fussy cut around the painted stripes and used it as embellishment above and below my photos.  I love how it looks!!

I used two torn pieces of paper from the ‘A5 Paper Stack’ to provide extra layers behind the cards and to provide texture.

For my embellishment I used butterflies and floral clusters from the ‘Die Cut Ephemera’, ‘Clear Stickers’, a ‘Puffy Heart’, and a couple of ‘Puffy Stickers’.  I didn’t need much else because I felt that the background paper, torn paper strips and pocket cards did most of the work for me!

I finished off my page with some splatters in black and dark gold.  I hope you enjoyed seeing my first layout with These Days!

Have a lovely week

Melissa